The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-11-02


respopded: "Father knows how fnucb l
can carry ., and God. cur Father. will not
allow too much imposition on his children.
In the day Of eternity Il will be found
Won had not enc annoyance too many,
not one evaporation too many, not ono
outrage too many. Your Heavenly Father
knows how much YOU can carry.
Again. we ought not to allow the pas
sage Of the sunset hour before the dis
missal Of all our affronts. because vs.
NAV associate the sublimest action
Of the soul with the sublimest spec
tacle in nature. 1t is a most delight
some thing to have our personal expert.
ences allied with certain objects. There
Is tree or river bank where God first
answered your PRAYER You will never
pass that place or think OF that place
without thinking OF the glorious COM
munion. There yeas some gate or some
room or some garden walk where Won
were affianced with the companion who
has beca your chief low In life. You
never speak of thah place but with smile.
Some of YOU have pleasant memories con.
nected with the evening star. or the moon
IN its first quarter. or with the sunrise.
because YOU saw it Just as you were ar
irving at harbor after tempestuous voy-
age.
Forever and forever, O nearer, associate
the sunset with yo magnanimous, out
and ont. unljm tied remuneration of all
hatreds and forgiveness Of all foes. ad.
NIT il is the most diFTlcult Of all praces to
practice. and at the start Won NAV make
complete failure, but keep on In the at
tempt to practice IL. Shakespeare wrote
ten PLAYS before he reached Merchant o,
Venice. tweutv-eight PLAYS before he
reached Macbeth. And gradually you
will come from the easier graces TO tho
most difficult Beside that. IL is not a mat
ter of personal determination so much as
the LAYING hold OF the almighty arm
of God who will helm us To
do INV thing we ought TO do.
Remember that in all personal controyer-
sizes the one least to blame will have to
take the first step at modification. il il is
ever effective. The contest between
Eschines and Aristippus resounds
through history. but Aristippus, who was
least to blame. went to Eschines and
said: ssShall we not agree to be friends
before we make ourselves the laughing
stock of the whole countrygv And Es.
chimes said: "Thou art a far better man
than I. for I began the quarrel; but thou
hast been the first in healing the breach.n
And thew ALWAYS friend Afterwards.
So let the one of Won that is least to blame
take the first step toward concilia-
tion. The one most In the wrong
will never take IT. oh. Il makes
one feel splendidly to be able. by Gods
helm. TO practice unlimited forgiveness.
1t improves ones BODY and soul. 1t will
make Won measure three or four more
inches around the chest. and improve
your respiration so that YOU can take
deeper and longer breath. It improves
the countenance by scattering the gloom
and Frightening thefforehead, and loosen
ing the pinched look about the nostril and
lip. and makes YOU somewhat like God
himself.
He is omninoteuca. and we can not copv
that. He is independent of all the uni-
verse. and we can not copy that.
He is creative. and we can not copy
that He Is onlnipresent. and we can
not copy that. But he forgives with
broad sweep all faults and all
neplects and ALI insults and all wrong
doing. and in that we NAV COPY him with
mighty success. Go harness that subIi me
action of your soul to an hour when the
gate of Heaven opens to let the dav pass
into eternities. and some of the ylories as.
cane this wav through the brief opening.
We talk about the Italian sunsets. and
sunset amid the Apennines. and sunse,
amid the CordIIeras But I win tell yor
how Won NAV see orander sunset thar
any mere lover of nature ever beheld:
that is bv flinying into IL ali your hatreds
and animosities. and let the horses OF
| fire trample them. and the chariots of fire
roll over them and the spearmep
| of fire stab them. and the beach
| of fire consume them, and the bill.
| lows of fire overwhelm them. The
| snblimest thing God does Is the sunset
The sublimest thing Won can do is forgive
| ness. Along the glowing banks of this
| coming evening let tho divine and tho hui
man be concurrent.
| Again: We should not let the sun &c
down on our wrath, because 1t Is of little
| Importance what the world saws OF Won or
does to YOU when you have the affuent
| God of the sunset az your provider and
defender. People talk as though il were
| a fixed spectacle of nature and always the
same. But no one ever saw two sunsets
alike: and il the world has existed six
Thousand wears there have been about two
million one hundred and ninety thousand
| sunsets. each of them as distinct from
all the other pictures in the gallery Of
| the sky as Titian,s "Iast Supper.D Ru.
bens, nDescent From the Cross y Raphaep,
Transformations and Michael Ancelo,s
LAST udgmentu are distinct from eacs
| other. If that God of such infinite
resources that he can mt ON the wall al
| tba sty each NIGHT mora than tha T,onvra
| and the I,nxembourg. and the Vatican
and tbe Dresdap aud Venetian gaIlariaa
| ALI IN one. il nv God and fvonr God. ON
nrovider and PROTECTOR what e the use a.
onr Worrying about anv human antapon.
| isms IF we are misinternreted fine cod
| ~ the manv.colored epnsat can mt III,
| ripht color ON our action. II He can
| afford 10 hang sueb mnsterniece,
over tba outsida wall Of Heave,,
| and baya than ohIitaratad IN an bonr ha
nn.t he very rich n reeanrces and can
INIT us through h safetv. n ali the garn,.
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